Music : Poulenc: The Carmelites
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0095115313428
Label: Chandos
Manufacturer: Chandos
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Chandos
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Studio: Chandos
Sales Rank: 215619
Disc 1:- Act 1. Scene 1. Where is Blanche?
- Act 1. Scene 1. Blanche, your poor brother was so very impatient
- Act 1. Scene 1. Her poor imagination always flies from one extreme to another
- Act 1. Scene 1. Dear father, there is no incident so small or unimportant
- Act 1. Scene 2. Prelude
- Act 1. Scene 2. Do not believe this comfortable chair is a privilege
- Act 1. Scene 2. What has driven you here?
- Act 1. Scene 2. My daughter, the outside world often questions
- Act 1. Scene 3. Prelude
- Act 1. Scene 3. Oh no, not more beans!
- Act 1. Scene 4. Prelude
- Act 1. Scene 4. Would you be so kind as to raise my pillow
- Act 1. Scene 4. You may get up my child
- Act 1. Scene 4. Monsieur Javelinot, you must know it's customary
- Act 1. Scene 4. Please inform your sisters
- Act 2. Scene 1. Qui Lazarum resuscutasti a monumento foetidum
- Act 2. Scene 1. What are you doing?
- Act 2. Interlude. Dear Sister, I'm afraid that our cross
- Act 2. Scene 2. My dear daughters, I don't need to remind you
- Act 2. Scene 2. Ave Maria
- Act 2. Interlude. What is going on?
Disc 2:- Act 2. Scene 3. Prelude
- Act 2. Scene 3. Blanche, why do you behave like this?
- Act 2. Scene 3. Compose yourself, Sister Blanche
- Act 2. Scene 4. My faithful daughters, I know that some among you
- Act 2. Scene 4. But what will become of you?
- Act 2. Scene 4. Someone is ringing the bell
- Act 2. Scene 4. Open the door, open the door now!
- Act 2. Scene 4. My sisters, our Reverend Mother is coming
- Act 3. Scene 1. Father, speak to them
- Act 3. Scene 1. There is only one vote against. That is enough
- Act 3. Interlude. Fellow citizens, we congratulate you
- Act 3. Interlude. Sister Gerald, we have to warn the priest
- Act 3. Scene 2. Prelude
- Act 3. Scene 2. It's you!
- Act 3. Scene 3. My daughters, we have almost come to the end
- Act 3. Scene 3. And what of Sister Blanche?
- Act 3. Scene 3. The Tribunal of the Revolution declares
- Act 3. Interlude. It is done. They have been condemned
- Act 3. Scene 4. Prelude
- Act 3. Scene 4. Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae
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When the Met did its first production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites in 1977, there was only one recording of this opera available in the U.S., the one recorded during the composer's lifetime. Then came a video from Australia in the late '80s, a spiffy new CD set from the Lyon Opera in 1992, and with the composer's centennial in 1999 several other videos and soundtracks, including ones in German and the original Italian (for the La Scala premiere in 1957). It was Poulenc himself who wanted ... Read More
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